Sports Artist John Robertson's most recent commercial project (upcoming Milwaukee Bucs 2018) the remodel of the NFL Green Bay Packers football stadium suites area that opened in July 2017 – (8 paintings) and three (8 feet by 15 feet) baseball paintings for the new MLB Atlanta Braves stadium that opened in April 2017. Click on the “About” link for more commercial sports stadiums and arenas work.

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Golf Painting of Bubba Watson

The golf painting of PGA player Bubba Watson with hid perfect swing by sports art is John Robertson is 4 feet by 8 feet, acrylic on unstretched canvas.

When I was in college I managed a golf driving range for about a year. It could be boring standing at the counter asking, “premium or regular” which referred to the quality of the practice golf balls and not the quality of gasoline that was served at the “service” stations where I also worked. Among the other jobs at the golf driving range I had to do was to drive the “golf picker” which was an old Willies Jeep towing a raker that scraped up the golf balls from from the brown dirt. There were targets on the driving range at 50 yards and 100 yards and 150 yards and 200 yrds and 250 yards. But the main target was me driving the golf picker.

Golf Hustler

The fun part of the golf job was watching a golf hustler, who hung out at the driving range, hustling customers with his trick shots. He was about 5 feet 4 inches tall, and had to be over two hundred pounds. He wore crazy colored golf shorts and was as hairy as a fat, brown bear. I found a mentor.

I saw him out drive people with a shovel and a rake. I saw him make a bet with a guy that he could stand on one picnic bench, tee up a golf ball on another picnic bench (he put the tee between the crack between the two strip of wood on the bench) and with his favorite garden rake, drive the ball off the bench over 175 yards and hit the target out on the range. I saw him stand on one side of the golf shack and with a garden hoe, pitch the ball blindly over the shack and come within ten feet of the 75 yard target. I saw him pocket a lot of money. The owner said when he came around, chase him off. But the owner was seldom there and I was mentored and entertained. Also, as the saying goes, “don’t poke the bear.”